April 5, 2011
CDCR still planning to send 2,000 inmates to Michigan private prison?
Employees set to go to work at a former state prison in Baldwin being converted for use by inmates from California have been told to stay home while California state government sorts through its budget problems.
The former Michigan Youth Correctional Facility, which closed in 2005, was preparing for the arrival of the first wave of California prisoners May 1. But workers slated for training this week were told not to report, and a spokeswoman with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said today training was postponed because of California’s budget crisis.
Cassandra Hockenson said the department still intends to send more than 2,000 prisoners to Michigan. “But everything is on hold,” she said...
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